The world was changing in the 7th-century Byzantine remnants of the Roman Empire. Byzantium's southern provinces—North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean—were already vibrant and diverse cultural ...(Read More)

(Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award) Alice Walker's masterpiece depicts the struggle of black women of the mid-20th century against both white racism and also black ...(Read More)

(Winner of the 2006 Coretta Scott King Author Award) On March 2nd and 3rd in 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, as more than 400 men, women, and ...(Read More)

In this revealing book, two of the world's most controversial contemporary artists—so stoic they have dubbed themselves "living sculptures"—explain and defend their views and actions. These ...(Read More)

(Runner-up for the 2009 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize) In the 20 years that followed the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, 800,000 Jews left their homes in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, ...(Read More)

(Winner of the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature) The year is 1928, and Nazism is on the rise in Austria. Photographer Philippe Halsman, a Jewish 22-year-old from Latvia, is falsely ...(Read More)